Military

Barnstormer, World War II fighter, pioneering test pilot, aerobatic genius-Bob Hoover is a true American hero. Now, in Forever Flying, he tells his amazing story, sharing all the thrills and chills, spectacular stunts and death-defying exploits that have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866915Author Alexander MladenovFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The Special Operations Executive developed a vast network of agents across Occupied Europe which played a vital role in developing and sustaining Resistance movements that persistently sought to subvert German control of their territories. The...

HMS Royal Oak was a Revenge-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, infamously torpedoed at anchor by the German submarine U-47 on 14 October 1939. Royal Oak was anchored at Scapa Flow in Orkney, Scotland when she became the first of the five Royal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739751302Author David DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint AFV Modeller LtdPublisher AFV Modeller Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907677748Author Chris AshFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857065605Author Hugh GoughFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 150g

How was it that ordinary men in medieval England and Wales became such skilled archers that they defeated noble knights in battle after battle? The archer in medieval England became a forerunner of John Bull as a symbol of the spirit of the ordinary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903953150Author Vernon HollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Woodfield PublishingPublisher Woodfield PublishingWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679738282Author Elisha Hunt RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

The M3 Lee was America's first mass-produced combat tank. Its unusual configuration of hull-mounted 75 mm gun and turret-mounted 37 mm cannon was a result of the rush to get the vehicle in production following Nazi Germany's rapid advances in Europe...

Updated and revised from the popular 2002 edition, with full-colour maps and new images throughout, this is a concise study of the American Revolutionary War. The American Revolution, or the American War of Independence, has been characterized...

'In this fascinating account of the turbulent Churchill father-and-son relationship, Josh Ireland shows how central Winston and Randolph were to each other's lives' Andrew RobertsFew fathers and sons can ever have been so close as Winston Churchill and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780624088820Author Alexander StrachanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Tafelberg Publishers LtdPublisher Tafelberg Publishers LtdWeight(grams)...

A spellbinding new biography of Stalin in his formative yearsThis is the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin from his birth to the October Revolution of 1917, a panoramic and often chilling account of how an impoverished, idealistic youth from the...

The exclusive and definitive look at the 50-year history of the Navy Fighter Weapons School. The history of air combat has seen one recurring theme-new tactics are learned in battle, forgotten or discarded when battle concludes, and relearned at...

For all its successes, the future of the Special Air Service was uncertain after the Second World War. Resurrected as 22 SAS Regiment for the Malayan Emergency, after a shaky start it evolved into an important tool in the struggle against terrorism. ...

This brief introduction surveys Christian thinking on an array of topics related to security and peace from a just war perspective. Drawing primarily on Scripture and theology, Eric Patterson explores the moral dimensions of order, justice, and peace in...

Over the last seven hundred years the United Kingdom has acquired a staggering array of treasures as a direct result of its military activities - from Joan of Arc's ring to the Rock of Gibraltar to Hitler's desk. Spoils of War describes these spoils and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501145032Author Robert O'NeillFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm)...

When the German High Command encircled Leningrad it was a deliberate policy to eradicate the city's civilian population by starving them to death. As winter set in and food supplies dwindled, starvation and panic set in. A specialist in battle psychology...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250271846Author Ric PradoFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 634gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 165mm...

The arduous development of a dedicated naval air arm for Germany's resurgent military was fraught with the kind of fierce inter-service rivalry that was rife throughout the turbulent history of the Third Reich. However, almost despite the odds, a small...

How perceptual technologies have shaped the history of war from the Renaissance to the present From ubiquitous surveillance to drone strikes that put "warheads onto foreheads," we live in a world of globalized, individualized targeting. The perils are...

From December 1915 until the armistice of November 1918, Sir Douglas Haig was commander-in-chief of the largest army his country had ever put into the field. He has been portrayed as both an incompetent 'butcher and bungler' and a clear-sighted,...

SILENT NIGHT brings to life one of the most unlikely and touching events in the annals of war. In the early months of WWI, on Christmas Eve, men on both sides left their trenches, laid down their arms, and joined in a spontaneous celebration with their...

In his own words Andre Scheepers describes his childhood on a farm, learning about the bush from his African friends, and becoming a soldier. The family had to leave the farm after being ambushed by terrorists.A quiet, introspective, deep thinker Andre...

During the Cold War, the G3 was one of the world's pre-eminent battle rifles. Developed in France and Spain after 1945, the rifle was produced by the German arms manufacturer Heckler & Koch. Adopted by more than 40 countries and produced on licence by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299397Author Chantal ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm

In 1938, the Yokosuka Naval Air Technical Arsenal, acting under the requirements issued by the Kaigun Koku Hombu for a Navy Experimental 13-Shi Carrier Borne specification for a dive-bomber to replace the venerable 'Val' aboard carriers. The resulting...

On 15 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, tanks - one of the decisive weapons of twentieth-century warfare - were sent into action for the first time. In his previous books Trevor Pidgeon, one of the leading authorities on the early tanks, has...

This is the fourth, revised and updated, edition of Geoffrey Till's Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-first Century.The rise of the Chinese and other Asian navies, worsening quarrels over maritime jurisdiction and the United States' maritime pivot towards...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992321611Author John MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 802Imprint John MorganPublisher John MorganWeight(grams) 1052g

At what point does the will to survive on the battlefield give way to bloodlust? What turns men into killers?The Battle of Crete was one of the most spectacular military campaigns of the twentieth century. For the first time in history, German forces...

Aerial warfare which has dominated western war-making for over 100 years, and despite regular announcements of its demise, it shows no sign of becoming obsolete. Frank Ledwidge offers a sweeping look at the history of air warfare, introducing the major...

On April 14, 1994, two U.S. Air Force F-15 fighters accidentally shot down two U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopters over Northern Iraq, killing all twenty-six peacekeepers onboard. In response to this disaster the complete array of military and civilian...

As the Pacific War approached a crescendo, the clashes between swarming US Navy carrier aircraft, and the gigantic Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) Yamato-class battleships became symbolic of the fortunes of the two nations. They also served as a metaphor...

The Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment was a Canadian armoured regiment attached to the 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade which landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day in support of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division and then fought through France, Belgium,...

Liberia was in the headlines in 1990 when thousands of teenage fighters, including young men wearing women's clothing and bizarre objects of decoration, laid seige to the capital, Monrovia. In response to the crisis, a West African peacekeeping force,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909384972Author Charles SingletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company